Where do you first look on a web page? Do you have a tendency to look in a particular location? This article What You Most Need To Know discusses: “What We Saw When We Looked Through Their Eyes”
Its an interesting read as well as informative, especially as designers strive to marry standards with usability to effectively present their message.
thanks to wasp
The Folks over at The Web Standards Project Have developed a nice little informative site called Browse Happy. This site is intended to explain to web surfers the security dangers of Internet Explorer, and give them a walk thru of some fantastic and much better browsers. The fact that Microsoft has announced that they will not be making any significant updates to their browser until the release of their new OS “Longhorn”, which is years away.
Also, one of the great things this site does is turn people on to standards compliant browsers. Which furthers web development and users knowledge of why having a standards compliant browser is important to them and their enjoyment online. WASP continues its mission to further educate and promote web standards.
We are in a very crucial time period now in which large masses of web surfers can dump IE for better browsers during their long drought season ahead. While illusions of a Longhorn mirage loom on the desert horizon which is Microsoft.
There’s a nice read just fresh off of the Zeldman presses Silence and Noise
"But I’m not the boy making that speech, and creatively of late I’ve been more concerned with design, content, and usability. Web standards are part of the picture, but not its focal point, except when I’m considering the semantics of a site’s content, inventing a new technique, or tricking Internet Explorer into emulating a browser."
That last line is a classic….
[insert shameless plug for FireFox]